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Product description

This 800 watt light gives you the kind of studio lighting you need to get the professional shots you want. With continuous lighting there is no need for complicated flash settings or sync cords.

Full metal made body; Very strong and powerful lighting; Light output of 800 watts; Comes with adapter for use at 110V and 220 V; Equipped with barndoors; Knob on the back of the light allows you to adjust the focus of the beam of light; A bulb life time is about 1000 hours.

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Updated: Knocking off a star because the barndoors have partially broke off the mount. The welds on them were poor.

Also, the dimmer box tends to get hot...hope it's rated for the 800W of the bulb. It's not that big a dimmer.

Original Review:

Although the power requirements and heat are moving people toward fluorescents and LEDs, if you need an open faced 3200K halogen setup a few of these are a great value for the price. These as delivered to me look very close to the photo shown, and if anything are improved.

Two feet down the thick 18AWG cord is a small dimmer/switch/fuse box that works well for both of my units. There is an additional 7 feet of cord past that. The barndoors have handy clips built into them and lock somewhat securely onto the fixture. The included globe works fine. There is a slight buzz as is typical with these when using a dimmer, but it won't be loud enough to bother your sound department much.

The focus control lets you set how bright the center will be. There is some stippling at the edge of the circle (probably from the safety screen) that the barndoors or some diffusion will take care of. The center is nice and smooth. The overall build is fine and better than one would expect for the dough.

Be sure to follow the standard safety precautions: never handle the halogen bulb with your bare hands (the oils will make it blow up from the heat) and use safety chains to ensure the fixture and doors don't fall onto someone's head. It would be nice if spare fuses were included but they aren't. I will write in if these fail in practice but so far so good.

I just opened the box and seen two other boxes open the two and seen two grey QL-1000 Professional Quartz lights. No tripod which is ok I wasn't sure if it came with them or not, no barn doors it came with one cup looking thing that goes over the light?they are dimmable which is good, solid body, fan inside the housing of the light3200k gives a yellow tintIt was an Ok purchase if this is what your looking for there great!!

For what this light costs the unit itslef is quite sturdy and robust. The dimmer unit stopped working after one or two uses, I sent it back and after one use the new one did the same thing. When I say it didn't work the light just would not turn on due to the bad dimmer. I eventually just cut it out and rewired the light. Now it works fine but no fuse and no dimmer. One cool thing about this light is it makes no noise when you dim it which is pretty cool. Most tungsten lights make noise when you do. I can always use a seperate dimmer if I want but I don't know if it will be as quiet.

This light is basically not suited for professional use. For a hobbyist or film student its great but if you plan on using it to make money get something better.